With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

slow and easy, but I got some miles in and felt great.  1/2 mile warm up, 3 mile run (around 10mm pace), and 1/4 mile cool down.

No soreness after the run :-)

20 minute warm up on the elliptical. I was reading Nat Geo & realized the time was up & I'd just been going on & on..not sure how long I was really on there.

Went out to run, and my garmin was dead.  So I took the same route I took yesterday.  I'm not sure of my time or pace.  Things were great.  Around mile 2, I felt a twinge of pain, so I slowed down & shortened my stride.  It was smooth sailing from there on out. 

It's been a few hours since I ran, and now my knee is sore & feeling some pain.  Darn it! 

It did feel great to get out & run in the crisp cold air.  I got to see the sky lighten up in the east and the beautiful spread of colors in the sky.  Simply Marvelous!!!!! 

walked/ran 5/5 knee was a little sore.  i had the tape (5 days old) and my knee strap the last 2 days, but I think it's time for new tape.

Epic 4 am morning of fun with well pump spraying water everywhere the night before, so no water all night or morning, extension cords not working because the circuit had tripped.  Then the light popped out as soon as I got power to the  cord, so I had to replace the light.  Went to well house to put the heat lamp on, and had to replace the light because it was burned out too.

Then I went on my walk/run and came back home.  did my physical therapy and when the kids came home from seminary, they asked if we could turn the heat up.  I checked the temp, and the house was 58*.  The furnace had stopped working as well.  Turned it off & on, went outside to check the circuit, and I'm not going to question how or why, but it magically  started working.

Then when we were trying to leave the house, the garage door opener/closer wouldn't work. 

I was glad when that morning ended.

Wyatt's super-savvy husband came and saved the day by fixing the pipes in the well house.  Thank goodness for friends with mad plumbing skills :-)

45 min elliptical.

wore my big knee brace because the KTape was gone, and my little helper is too busy to put it back on.

The run went really well and I felt great.

Same as yesterday.  It's been cold this week (for me) in the 20's in the morning. 

Went to the orthopedic doc today and he wasn't really concerned with anything on the MRI except my patellar cartilage & some bruising on the patella.  he said strengthen the quads.  Exactly what PT has been telling me & I've been trying to do.

I can run, just gradually increasing my miles, and using whatever I need to help support the patella while I work on strengthening the muscles.  The big brace works great right now.  I'm hoping to get the KTape back on & see if I can use that instead.  I'd rather have less than more, but I'll take what I need to in order to keep running.

Got to run with Wyatt again.  There was a light rain, and if we hadn't taken a hot cocoa break last week, this week would have been a good one.

Warm up walk for .5 miles, then we ran 2 miles.  I had a sharp pain around mile 1.5 and tried running through it, but by mile 2 I walked for a while to give it a break.  After another .5 miles of walking, we started running again and I didn't have any problems for the next 4 miles.

Woo-hoo!!